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Re:C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand so... by loup-vaillant on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:21PM (#37873763)
It’s not. Not for humans (the extra parenthesis is just useless clutter), and not for machines (I’ve written parsers, both alternatives are as easy to implement).
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